Hatsukoi - Sekai Ichi

Ritsu felt the floor drop. His teenage angst, his first love’s betrayal, his secret dreams of becoming a mangaka—all of it, now with a stranger’s ending.

The story was published. It became a surprise hit, praised for its “raw emotion and surprising humor.” And Ritsu, despite himself, started doodling again—not for Aya, not for Marukawa, but for the boy who had fished his broken heart out of a trash can and held onto it for a decade. Sekai Ichi Hatsukoi